TRUSS & FRAME

Course no-CE 416

course title- Prestress Concrete Design Sessinonal

Presented by Course Teachers

MD. Mohotasimur Rahman Munshi Galib Muktadir
ID NO. 10.01.03.040
&
Sabreena Nasrin
Lecturer of Civil Engineering Department

Ahsanullah University Of Science And Tecnology

Dhaka, Bangladesh
 TRUSS - INTRODUCTION
A truss is a structure composed of members fastened
together in such a way to resist change in shape and it is
rigid structure.

Triangular unit
A truss is a structure comprising one or more
triangular units constructed with straight members
whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes.

Its purpose is to support a larger load or span a

greater distance than any individual member from
which the truss may be built
TRUSS – INTRODUCTION CONTINUE
Node External forces and reactions to those
forces are considered to act only at the
nodes.

Moments (torques) are explicitly

excluded because, and only because, all the
joints in a truss are treated as pin
joint or hinge joint .

Result in forces in the members which

Tie strut are either tensile or compressive forces.
 PLANE TRUSS VS SPACE TRUSS
Plane Truss
All member of truss and applied load lie
in a same plane.
In a simple truss, m = 2n - 3 where m
is the total number of members and n is the
number of joints.
Space Truss
An elementary space truss consists of 6
members connected at 4 joints to form a
tetrahedron.
In a simple space truss, m = 3n - 6
where m is the number of members and n
is the number of joints.
ROOF TRUSS TERMINOLOGY
ROOF TRUSS TYPE
BRIDGE TRUSS TERMINOLOGY
BRIDGE TRUSS TYPE
 METHOD OF TRUSS ANALYSIS

Joint Method
Determine the Support Reaction.

Apply Fx = 0 and Fy = 0 to every node and

determine member force

Dismember the truss and create a free-body

diagram for each member and pin.
 METHOD OF TRUSS ANALYSIS
Section method
Determine the Support Reaction.

To determine the force in member BD, pass a

section through the truss as shown and create a
free body diagram for the left side.

With only three members cut by the

section, the equations for static equilibrium may
be applied to determine the unknown member
forces, including FBD.
 FRAME (INTRODUCTION)

Contain at least one multi-force

member, i.e., member acted upon by 3 or more
forces.

Frames are designed to support loads and are

usually stationary.
 ANALYSIS OF FRAME

A free body diagram of the complete frame is

used to determine the external forces acting on
the frame.

Internal forces are determined by

dismembering the frame and creating free-body
diagrams for each component.